Posts tagged with "Maronites"

August 13th, 2017When the first crossings opened in 2003, Antonis Emmanuel thought long and hard about the options he might now have. Despite the surge of hope that greeted the announcement, it was by no means clear where the decision to open the crossings might lead.
Born in 1956 in the Maronite village of Ayia Marina, what Antonis did know was that...

August 10th, 2017A meeting was held at the office of Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci on Thursday to continue planning for the return of Maronites to their villages in the north.
According to the statement from Akinci's office, the meeting discussed legal, financial, technical and social aspects of the return process.
During the meeting,...

August 1st, 2017The National Council, the country`s top advisory body, is meeting today at the Presidential Palace, under the chairmanship of Cyprus President Nicos Anastasiades to discuss recent developments in the Cyprus issue.
CNA sources say the body is set to discuss the way forward in the Cyprus process and recent developments such as the...

July 30th, 2017Despite a week of blunders, big and small, in the fight to handle the fallout from the failed Conference on Cyprus at Crans-Montana earlier this month, the government is gearing up for a return to the process with the framework drafted by United Nations’ Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on the table, a government source has told the...

July 27th, 2017Cyprus is drafting a legal document to explain that the opening up of the fenced-off area of Varosha in Famagusta is tantamount to “expanding the occupation”, Foreign Minister Ioannis Kasoulides said on Thursday.
Kasoulides said Nicosia would be censuring the Turkish moves with the United Nations and elsewhere after reports...

July 27th, 2017A settlement of the Cyprus problem must be based on European principles because they afford the best prospects for lasting peace and prosperity, Commission President Jan Claude Juncker said, as reports suggested the Turkish side could be opening the fenced-off town of Varosha, following a similar decision regarding Maronite...

July 27th, 2017THE Turkish army’s decision to allow Maronites to return to their villages in the north is part of Turkey’s plan to ensure that such villages are not placed under Greek Cypriot administration after a solution and will create discord among refugees, government spokesman Nicos Christodoulides said on Wednesday.
The government’s...

July 26th, 2017
Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci announced on Wednesday that a decision had been made to allow Maronites to return to all their villages in the north of the island.
The decision to open the villages for settlement by its former inhabitants was taken at Akinci’s office on Wednesday morning.
Akinci’s office said it...

June 13th, 2017President Nicos Anastasiades continued his visit to Lebanon on Tuesday, meeting the country’s Grand Mufti and the House Speaker.
After his meeting with Grand Mufti Sheikh Abdel-Latif Derian he said that religious issues had never been a source of conflict and division in Cyprus, and underlined the island’s contribution to...

June 1st, 2017The restored Church of Ayia Marina, located in the north in Ayia Marina Skyllouras, in the Nicosia district, was handed over on Thursday to the Maronite Church, almost a year after the bicommunal Technical Committee on Cultural Heritage started conservation works on the site.
A large crowd attended the completion ceremony, and as the...

March 24th, 2017The Turkish military began clearing out of the once mixed village of Ayia Marina (Gurpinar) which will allow its former Maronite and Turkish Cypriot residents to move in, though no specific deadline was given, Turkish Cypriot Yeniduzen newspaper reported on Friday.
Chairman of the Gurpinar (Ayia Marina) solidarity society Mehmet Hoca,...

March 18th, 2017The Maronites of occupied Ayia Marina will soon be free to return to their village, which is currently a military base, Turkish Cypriot leader Mustafa Akinci said during a visit at the village on Thursday, it emerged on Saturday.
According to local daily Politis, Turkish Cypriot former village residents, who joined Akinci on the...

January 25th, 2017More than 100 Maronites have applied to resettle in the four villages belonging to their community in the north, Presidential Commissioner for Humanitarian Issues Fotis Fotiou said on Wednesday.
It followed a meeting with the representative of the Maronite community in parliament and the mayors of the four Maronite villages,...

May 22nd, 2016The Representatives of the religious groups of Maronites Yiannakis Mousas, and Latins Antonella Mantovani were declared at the Philoxenia Conference Centre, in Nicosia on Sunday evening.
During a proclamation ceremony, Returning Officer for the representatives of the religious groups of Maronites, Armenians and Latins, Constantinos...

May 4th, 2016Vartkes Mahdessian will be the representative of the Armenian religious group at the House of Representatives for another term as he was the only person to express interest in the post, it was announced on Wednesday.
Mahdessian, is to be formally declared as the representative of the Armenian religious group on Thursday by the Chief...

November 4th, 2013MEMBERS OF the local community and parliament visited the Maronite Church of Ayios Georgios tou Sporou in Kormakitis in the north on Sunday to celebrate the name day of the church’s patron saint.
Speaking at the service, Maronite Archbishop Josef Soueif said that Cyprus has an important role to play in the wider area due to its rich...

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